Palace Hotel, San Francisco

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The Palace Hotel is a historical historic hotel in San Francisco, California, located in the southwest corner of the Market and the streets of New Montgomery. The hotel is also referred to as the "New" Palace Hotel to distinguish it from the original Palace Hotel 1875, which was destroyed after being destroyed by a fire caused by the San Francisco 1906 quake.

The current structure was opened on December 19, 1909, on the same site as its predecessor. The hotel was closed from January 1989 to April 1991 to undergo a two-year renovation and seismic retrofit. Occupying most of the city blocks, this nine-year-old nine-story hotel stands right next to BART Montgomery Street Station and the Monadnock Building, and across Market Street from Lotta's Fountain.

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The original Palace Hotel was built by San Francisco banker and entrepreneur William Chapman Ralston, who relied heavily on his shaky banking empire to help finance a $ 5 million project. Although Bank of California Ralston collapsed in late August 1875, and Ralston himself drowned in San Francisco Bay that same day that he lost control of the institution, it did not interfere with the opening of the Palace Hotel two months later on 2 October 1875 Ralston's business partner in the project was US Senator William Sharon, who has helped lead to the fall of the bank when he disposes of his stake in Comstock Lode. Sharon eventually controlled the hotels as well as Ralston's bank and debt, both paying only a penny to the dollar.

With 755 guest rooms, the original Palace Hotel (also known colloquially as "Bonanza Inn") was at the time of construction of the largest hotel in the Western United States. At 120 feet (37 m) high, this hotel is the tallest building in San Francisco for more than a decade. The open-air open center of the building features a Grand Court overlooked by seven floors from a white column balcony that serves as an elegant train entrance. Shortly after 1900 the area was converted into a space called "Palm Court". Bartender, William "Chef" Boothby, is a fixture in the hotel for several years. The hotel features a large double decker hydraulic elevator known as "upstairs rooms". Each guest room or suite is equipped with a private bathroom as well as an electric call button to call the hotel staff members. All guest rooms can be combined to create suites, or to create large apartments for long term residents, and each living room has a large window overlooking the street below.

On November 25, 1890, M ??? (King) David Kalakaua visits California aboard a US ship. Charleston with businesses between the Kingdom of Hawaii and the US Government. Kalakaua, whose health is declining, lives in a suite at the Palace Hotel. Traveling throughout Mexico and Southern California and reportedly drinking excessively, the king suffered a stroke in Santa Barbara and rushed back to San Francisco. Kalakaua fell into a coma in his suite on January 18 and died two days later on January 20, 1891. The official cause of death as listed by US Navy officials was that the king had died of Bright disease (inflammation of the kidney).

Funded primarily by Bank of California founder William Ralston, it offers many innovative modern conveniences including an intercom system and four large hydraulic elevators called lift rooms. The most outstanding feature of the hotel is the Grand Court which serves as the entrance area for horse-drawn carriages. The area was converted into a coconut-filled "Garden Court" a few years before the 1906 earthquake.

"A palace really! Where will we find equality? Windsor Hotel, goodbye! You have to hand your palm to your western rivals, as far as the structure goes, though in all other things you can keep the main place No buildings another hotel in the world is equivalent to this.The Grand Court in Paris is poor compared to the Palace.The effects are generally at night, when brightly lit, amazingly, the furnishings, rooms and appointments are all fine, but then tell you all that built to "whip all creation," and millions of lucky owners allow him to win. ".... Andrew Carnegie, Round the World The free tour of the hotel is led by volunteers from City Guides San Francisco, a San Francisco Public Library program.

Although the hotel survived the initial damage from the morning of April 18, 1906, the San Francisco earthquake, by late afternoon it had been consumed by the next fire. In particular, Tenor Enrico Caruso (who had sung the role of Don JosÃƒÆ'Ã‚ Â© in Carmen last night) stayed at the hotel during the earthquake, and vowed never to return to the city. The urban legend is Caruso, "standing in his nightgown holding private photos of President Theodore Roosevelt and asking for special treatment."

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"Baby" Palace Hotel (1906- 1907)

While the original hotel ruins were torn down and its permanent building was built, the temporary 23-room facility known as the "Little" or "Baby" Palace Hotel was quickly designed and built about eight blocks west of the Market Street site in NW corner of Post and Leavenworth Streets. A simple two-story frame structure, the "Baby" Palace opened with great fanfare on November 17, 1906, just seven months after the earthquake and the fire had destroyed the city.

The hotel was only open to the public until July 1907, however, when the Palace Hotel Company rented the nearby Fairmont Hotel in Nob Hill for ten years, and in turn hired the Post Street building to The Olympic Club for five years as a temporary clubhouse. while the organization's facilities are also being rebuilt. Within a decade of construction, the building was replaced with a four-story apartment block built in 1916, which still occupies many northwest corners on the Post and Leavenworth streets where the "Baby" Palace Hotel briefly stood.

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"New" Palace Hotel (opened in 1909)

Completely rebuilt from the ground up, the "New" Palace Hotel opened on December 19, 1909, and quickly restarted its predecessor role as an important San Francisco landmark and hosted many major city events. Though much clearer than the original Palace, the new "Bonanza Inn" is in many ways elegant, luxurious, and gracefully on the inside as a building in 1875. The "Garden Court" (also called "Palm Court") - which occupies an area the same that the Grand Court did in the previous structure - has been one of the most prestigious hotel dining spaces in San Francisco since the day it opened.

Also known as "Pied Piper" Bar is located just off the sparkling marble lobby, dominated by Maxfield Parrish's 16-foot-6-foot (4.9 x 1.8 m) painting, 250-pound (110kg ) of the same painting. name.

The Ralston Room, named for one of the founders, William Ralston, is outside the main lobby to the left of the painting.

The hotel serves as a stage for several important events. In 1919, Woodrow Wilson gave a speech at the Garden Court to support the Treaties of Versailles and the League of Nations. In 1923, Warren G. Harding's term as President ended abruptly when he died at the Palace Hotel, in Room 8064, a suite on the eighth floor overlooking Market Street. In 1945, the Palace Hotel hosted a banquet to mark the opening session of the United Nations.

The palace was sold to the Sheraton Hotel in 1954 and became the Sheraton-Palace Hotel. Soviet Prime Minister Nikita Khrushchev spoke at a banquet at the Sheraton-Palace during an American tour in 1959. The Garden Court was declared a San Francisco Landmark in 1969. In 1973, shortly after the Sheraton was bought by ITT, he sold the Palace to the Kyo- Yes Japan, along with all their hotels in the Hawaiian archipelago. Sheraton continues to manage the hotel and the name stays the same. The entire Palace-Sheraton structure was declared a landmark in 1984.

Sheraton-Palace Hotel closed on January 8, 1989 for a $ 150 million restoration that garnered national media attention and awards. It reopened on April 3, 1991, as the Sheraton Palace Hotel, without hyphens in its name. The Sheraton Palace was placed in the Sheraton ITT Luxury Collection division when it was founded in 1992. The hotel dropped the Sheraton name in 1995, becoming another Palace Hotel. In 1997, the movie finale of David Fincher The Game , starring Michael Douglas, was shot at the Garden Court at the hotel.

A story of 60, 204 to 207 m (669-679 ft) addition of residential towers was proposed in 2006, to be named the Palace Hotel Residential Tower, designed by the architectural firm Skidmore, Owings & amp; Merrill. Construction has never started, because of the global financial crisis that hit in 2008.

The hotel owner has controversially removed the famous Pied Piper mural on March 23, 2013 for sale at a planned auction at Christie's. It is anticipated that the painting may have sold up to five million dollars. However, in light of strong public opposition to the removal of the painting, the hotel owner relented and instead the painting was cleaned, restored, and returned to the bar where it was picked up again with fanfare on August 22, 2013.

In 2015 the hotel underwent extensive renovations to its rooms, an indoor swimming pool and gym, lobby, promenade and The Garden Court, and also became part of the Marriott network when Marriott acquired Starwood. In 2016, the Palace was named the Best Historic Hotel in over 400 room categories by the American Historical Hotel, an initiative of the US National Historic Preservation Trust.

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In the literature

The final chapter of the third part of the main story in the 2007 novel The Gravedigger's Daughter by American author Joyce Carol Oates takes place at the Palace Hotel.
In Fog and Fire Time by Rhys Bowen writer, the protagonist, Molly Murphy Sullivan, traveled to San Francisco and stayed at the Palace Hotel while searching for her missing husband, days before the 1906 earthquake, described after the destruction of the city and chaos.